# Fata
## English
### Etymology

* As an Italian surname, from Fato, a short form of the name Bonfato (see Bonifacio) or from fata (“fairy, preying pantis”).
* As an Hungarian surname, from the old personal name Fáta.

### Proper noun

Fata (plural Fatas)
* A surname.

#### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Fata is the 25226th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 982 individuals. Fata is most common among White (80.65%) individuals.

### Anagrams

* FTAA, afta, afta'

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* Fada (Vulgar Latin, Medieval Latin)

### Etymology

From fātum (“destiny, lot, fate”) and fātus (“oracle, prophecy, fate”); derived from verb for (“I speak”) from Proto-Italic *fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti (“to speak”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfaː.ta/, [ˈfäːt̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfa.ta/, [ˈfäːt̪ä]

### Proper noun

Fāta f (genitive Fātae); first declension
* (Greek mythology, mythology) Alternative letter-case form of fāta (“Fate; Moira; Fairy, fay, deity of destiny; divine personification of fate”)
    Fatis Fata[bus] / Druinus M(arci) No[ni] / Arri Muciani c(onsulis) [opp. c(larissimi viri)] / actor praedioru[m] / Tublinat(ium), tegurium / a solo inpendio suo fe/cit et in tutela eius / sestertios n(ummos) CC conlustrio / fundi Vettiani dedit.To Fates and Fairies. Druinus, (slave) of [most illustrious] consul Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus, administrator of the Toblino estates, erected a shrine at his own expense and for its maintenance he offered two hundred sesterces on the occasion of the purification ceremony of the Vezzano estate

#### Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ābus).

### Proper noun

Fāta n pl (genitive Fātōrum); second declension
* (Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of fāta (“Fates; Parcae; Fairies, fey, deities of destiny; divine personifications of fate”)
    Fatis Fata[bus] / Druinus M(arci) No[ni] / Arri Muciani c(onsulis) [opp. c(larissimi viri)] / actor praedioru[m] / Tublinat(ium), tegurium / a solo inpendio suo fe/cit et in tutela eius / sestertios n(ummos) CC conlustrio / fundi Vettiani dedit.To Fates and Fairies. Druinus, (slave) of [most illustrious] consul Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus, administrator of the Toblino estates, erected a shrine at his own expense and for its maintenance he offered two hundred sesterces on the occasion of the purification ceremony of the Vezzano estate

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

#### Related terms

* Parca

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: fata
* North Italian:
** Piedmontese: faj, faja
** Venetan: fada
*** → Cimbrian: faada
* Gallo-Romance:
** Aragonese: fada
** Catalan: fada
** Old French: fae
*** Middle French: feie, fee
**** French: fée (see there for further descendants)
***** German: Fee
**** → Middle English: faie, fei
***** English: fae, fay, fey
*** Norman: fée
*** → Middle Dutch: feye
**** Dutch: fee
***** Afrikaans: fee
***** → West Frisian: fee
*** ⇒ Old French: faerie (see there for further descendants)
** Gascon: hada, hata
** Old Occitan: fada
*** Occitan: fada
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: fada
** Old Galician-Portuguese: fada
*** Galician: fada
*** Portuguese: fada
** Spanish: hada, fada (obsolete)
*** → Hiligaynon: ada
*** → Tagalog: ada

### Further reading

* “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* fadus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Fata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 655.
* Fata in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2697

## Romanian
### Etymology

From fata, definite form of fată.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Fata f
* A village in Vedea, Argeș, Romania